Now, we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book. Churchill and the bomb. So one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. We think most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember further back when people were scared of the abomb and then worse of the hbomb. And now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin ruane is professor of modern history at canterbury, Christchurch University in the United Kingdom. He has written quite a few books, one on vietnam and one is coming out very shortly on anthony eden. And that will be a very interesting one because he had such a long history with grand papa. He is working on now so
Nuclear weapons. This is 45 minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. To introduce our next speaker of the morning, we have another very special lady, please welcome edwina sands. [ applause ] good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. Well, its lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Now, we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book. Churchill and the bomb. So one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. We think most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember further back when people were scared of the abomb and then worse of the hbomb. And now today, t
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
The quantum computer the principal rival ms. China that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. Of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. Not so familiar to readers of Science Fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. That is the principal antagonist in the book. Host how much is real . I always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie. E. But that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the Chinese Intelligence Service. Would be those characters o dont exist in real life but it is as real as i could make it be and st
Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end